St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-28

time past of my life, Now, If farmer by
reason of wet weather and other difficulties
has lost ten days out of his time, and the
grass and weeds are taking his corn, and
new weather comes in, now he begins to work
his crop and is going to redeem his time
Hew does he do il? In the FIRST place he
doubles his forces, begins to work as soon as
the light comes and breaks and works as
long as light remains, and he puts in licks
with double force and in ten days he is fully
up. He has done double work until he has
caught up what he has lost. You see he has
redeemed his time. Now, brother, if we could
just only do that and say, Lord Lord, ] ain
going to double my forces and my energies.
| am going to put in more lcks and work for
Christ in the next ten days than have put
in in the last ten years. And when the ten
days are up you can say, l have kept up with
an average of what a Christian ought
to do. / have done fairly well
before God and man. And these are times,
brother, when we ought to redouble our dill
gence. These are times when we ought to be
very busy. These are times refreshing from
the presence of the Lord. Now. last night
when forty or fifty walked in there and set
down as penitents, suppose this audience had
turned itself, and each one had turned to his
neighbor next to him and said. Are you
saved? Maybe that would be the first man
you had asked that. question to in ten years
But because you haven't done anything Of
that you began. Suppose each Christian had
done that, and then marched to that door
with them and said 90 in as an honest peni-
tent, and then came back into the audience
and sought, sought. sought until the
LAST ONE UNSAyED
in the room had been carried in there and
brought to Jesus Christ. Oh, what priv
ilege we have. / love to work in my own
town. We have had revival meetings there
every summer under great arbor, as big as
this room or larger, and we get her there once
ayear in our revival meetings l love to work
in my own town because know the people,
and because / can leave the rostrum and go
down to a neighbor and take MIN by the lap
pei OF his coat and say, come, let us be re-
igtous. And brother, If you haven't relig-
ious force enough in your life to
move your neighbor, it is time you went
into that room yourself and say, Oh
Lord God, 1 need more fervor myself. That
Is true. Some people never do anything be-
cause they say l am not fit for it, I'm not fit to
do anything. Well, brother we are not running
on our fitness; the fact that you are
unit is proof that you ought to be
very close to Christ; that you
need him very bad and you need
MIN every day and every hour in your life.
L remember in Columbus, Ga, during re-
vlval meeting there, one morning brother
got up In the audience and said: Brethren,
tnls meeting ha; gone on for ten days and
haven't done thing for Christ; 1 have been
so overwhelmed with my unfitness, with the
sins OF my own life and am so unworthy, that
every time l thought of doing. anything the
devil would say, You are not fit to work in
the cause of Christ; you are no account any
way. And he said the devil just kept him
in that state and in his pew for ten days, but
he said yesterday morning: II couldn't stand
1t any longer, and just said I'll go to work
for the Lord and do the best l can I Just
started straight r
raised my hand and said, Here's the biggest
old backslider in Columbus talking to you.
Won't you come and ask God to save you?
And just went from one sinner to another
and said to every man and woman: This is
THE BIGGEST BACKSLIDER
and haven't done my duty as 1 ought;
haven't prayed in my family, and haven't at
tended prayer meetings and l am going to
start out on new line, come and go with me.
God has blessed me in the last twenty-four
hours. And if you would start out OH that
line you had better go home and say to your
children, Mother is not living right 1t
would do mother good. Say, Children, let
us go together to Christ and give ou: hearts
to God and lead a better life'' Present
yourselves to God. Oh! Lord. Lord, am not
much: and it is the hardest thing man or
woman can try to do in the world to give him.
self to God just like he is. Every fellow
wants to be fixed up, to brush and wash up
and get into apple pie order before he gives
himself to God. All that you put on don't
amount to anything. Old fellow, that don't
matter; when you give yourself to God, He
starts de noyo with the whole business. When
you soto Him He throws Off all your white
wash in the first place and throws it all 20
one side. God wants you as you are, and He
don't want any patching up or putting old
wine into new bottles. Some old sinner5stry-
ing to get ready to go to God and some back
sllders OF the church trying to get ready, re-
minds me of some of these finuicky old maids
that paint and plait and fix and arrange and
adjust until they are the laughing stock of
the universe: trying to look nice, you know.
Now, you old sinner, trying TO do your duty,
you are trying to powder up and fix and ar
range to get to God. God don't look at the
outward, but the inward. God proposes to do
thorough work in your soul if you will come
back to Him. My brother, don't stay away
from God because you are unworthy, but
come up and say; "Father, here l am. the
most ungracious of Thy children" and that is
sufficient. Come up and say, Thou hast
SAID if we come Thou will not cast us out"
On. how wish tine
PEOPLE HAD CONFIDENCE
in the love of the Father Present your
bodies as holy sacrifice, a living sacrifice.
Make it whole sacrifice. Here is INV heart
my tongue, hands, feet, all give to God [
am sure l have taken into the church two Or
three men that were worth their weight in
gold to the church aud 1 would not give one
of that sort for any number of the other
sort. For the more you have got of that
other sort the worse off you are. There is
many poor preacher in this country that
has raised his missionary assessment out of a
crowd, and it was the hardest kind of work in
the world to get anything out of them to
carry that gospel somewhere else. Here's q
member of the Methodist church who gives
5000 to the preacher and $40 year to the
missions. He will give 5000 year to God to
get the gospel preached to him, his wife and
four children, and then give $40 to have it
preached to all the balance of Gods uni
verse. All the balance of Gods uni
verse is not one-tenth as big as himself. his
wife and four children. Laughter Six
little tad-poles in God Almighty's ocean.
MonopoliZing the whole business. Laughter.
And that is what say; unless a man has given
himself to God it is mighty hard to get any
thing out of him, and if a man has freely
given himself to God ne will freely give God
all he has. And you show me man that the
gospel has done much for, and will show
you man that will give half of his last dollar
to carry that gospel to somebody else but
show me man the gospel never done much
for and will show you a man that Will ger
out of paying his missionary money if he can
You have seen that. I believe in predestina-
tion with all my heart, but don't believe that
God predestinated that anybody should be
lost. But believe mankind has | believe
the
CHURCH OF AMERICA
has predestined that the heather shall not
have the gospel, and they will be damned
without it. Did you ever think of that! And
the pre6estination is on the part of the church
of America. Adjust myself rightly, wisely.
towards God in the sense that belong to him.
You hear people say what church do you be-
long to. l belong to the Methodist. You
meet negro down South thirty years ago
IT, IL
says belong to Mr.. So and So. Every min
ute of his time, every drop of his blood, every
ounce of his person belongs to this man and
he couldn't go anywhere without pass in
his pocket. That colored man said he be-
longed in that way to that man. You say you
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